Soteriology. Big word. One that is worth applying yourself to unpacking the depth of its meaning. It is a word for the biggest gift that could possibly ever be fathomed. There is no need to rehash the whole message here. This is yet another message you'll just want to hear (follow link). For me, I came away from Summit Church with a sense of humility.
To truly understand just how far I am from God in my own humanness...to contemplate the mountain of moral debt that I have accumulated...to realize that I, like Adam, have ingested death...brings me to the point helplessness and from there to seeing the unimaginable value of what Christ has done for me. Soteriology. So great a salvation.
Before God remakes us, He first brings us to the end of ourselves. And from that position our soul reaches out to Him and says, "All I know of me, to all I know of Christ."
This humble plea of the soul is meant to be carried with me each and every day. From this position I find the joy of my restored relationship with God. From this position I find grace to release others from ways I think they may have wronged me. And from this position, I find compassion for those who have not yet come to know the unimaginable value of the biggest gift.
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